How to Use family practice in a Sentence

family practice

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Definition of family practicenext
  • She plans to enter family practice when she graduates from med school.
  • Since then, she's been a great addition to their family practice in Corte Madera.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 12 Sep. 2020
  • Porter, one of the few African American physicians in the county, had moved to Emanuel 33 years before to start a family practice.
    — Heather Vogell, ProPublica, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Still, the five-physician family practice had to prepare a tiered layoff list.
    — Jayne O'Donnell, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2020
  • All three dogs loved hanging out with patients at Dr. Lark’s family practice.
    — Liz Brown, NBC News, 30 May 2022
  • Obtain a doctorate of medicine and work in family practice.
    — Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 12 Aug. 2022
  • For months, the medical center didn’t see any patients stricken by the virus, and the count grew to just one or two at a time starting in July, said Dr. Diane Kennedy, a family practice physician.
    — Christopher Snowbeck, Star Tribune, 24 Oct. 2020
  • Cates is a family practice and sports medicine physician who started his career in pediatrics.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2020
  • One company lets doctors in small family practices order up complex lab tests for their patients on their phone.
    — The Economist, 11 July 2019
  • According to Jones and online public records, Fadal is a family practice doctor.
    — Caleb Downs, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Mason Park Medical Clinic is a family practice clinic serving the Katy area more than 23 years.
    — Roy Kent, Houston Chronicle, 8 Dec. 2019
  • Davis, 66, is a retired family practice doctor from Findlay, Ohio.
    — Fred Schulte, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2018
  • That hardly seems fair to Amanjit Singh, then 17, whose father was ordered to reopen his shuttered family practice clinic in Mumbai.
    — Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Mental-health care providers had the app remind the families to work on certain goals, such as setting a discussion topic for the week and having the family practice active-listening skills.
    — Laura Landro, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Smith closed his brick-and-mortar family practice during the pandemic to focus on ketamine by telemedicine, where patient demand was higher.
    — Daniel Gilbert, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Shutting down any family practices could leave thousands of patients having routine chest pains or other problems without any place to go.
    — Benjamin Mueller, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
  • The higher Medicaid funding has helped pay for four new adult family practice clinics and a pediatric mental health clinic, Johns said.
    — Phil Galewitz, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2022
  • As a family practice physician, Thomas, 63, has treated generations of families in the area.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Covid-19 patients have overwhelmed my family practice in New Jersey.
    — Alexander Salerno For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 24 Apr. 2020
  • The majority of family practice physicians in rural areas of the state are trained at one of UAMS’ eight regional campuses, according to the news release.
    — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Before your first day back in the office, Nealon recommends having your entire family practice their morning routine.
    — Lisa Rabasca Roepe, Wired, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The first $30 billion was based on Medicare billings, which translated into tens of millions for large local hospital systems, but that didn’t help a family practice like Culpepper’s.
    — Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Internal medicine, pediatrics and family practice also pay on the lower end and face doctor shortages.
    — Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • In his family practice, meanwhile, Fannin prescribed far less OxyContin and required any patients on opioids to undergo urine screens and pill counts.
    — Jerry Mitchell and Laura Ungar, The Courier-Journal, 28 Jan. 2018
  • When the family practice doctor overseeing the case asked for a peer-to-peer review, the insurance company physician defending the denial was an ob-gyn specialist.
    — Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Primary Health's 20 clinics in southwestern Idaho normally have an urgent care on one side and family practice doctors on the other.
    — Keith Ridler, Star Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
  • As families practice social distancing as a strategy to battle the pandemic, kids home from school may be watching more television than usual.
    — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 16 Mar. 2020
  • Physicians in internal medicine, family practice and pediatrics are PCPs.
    — WSJ, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Long hours and low pay have transformed pediatric or family practices into unattractive options for many aspiring physicians.
    — Reed Abelson and Julie Creswell, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2018
  • Does your family practice the Christmas Pickle tradition?
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 29 Oct. 2023

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